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Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer has been authorized to bring in a private pathologist to perform a second autopsy on her son, the head coroner in the Bahamas said Friday. The reality TV star and former Playboy playmate found her 20-year-old son Daniel Wayne Smith unresponsive Sept. 10 in her hospital room, three days after she gave birth to a daughter. She called for help but doctors were unable to revive him. The Bahamas coroner's office has termed Daniel Smith's death "suspicious."

Christy Albaugh will give her 24-year-old adopted son, Tim, a new life today. Albaugh, 48, of Placentia is donating one of her kidneys to her son so he can survive without dialysis. "As a mom, I couldn't imagine not doing it. While I didn't give him life the first time, now I have that chance," she said. "To find out that he and I were a match was miraculous for me."

Police shot and killed the son of a sheriff's deputy, claiming the young man had gestured toward them with a knife, officers said. Johnnie Nakao, the 21-year-old son of Santa Clara County Sheriff's Deputy John Nakao, had tried to steal a CD player in a Radio Shack on Thursday, police said. The officers tried to use the less-lethal Taser stun guns to subdue him, but the weapons malfunctioned, the officers said.

Danny Tarkanian, an assistant for his father, Jerry, at Fresno State, said Monday he has applied for the Cal State Fullerton men's basketball coaching job. Tarkanian said he has not been contacted by anyone on the school's search committee, which was appointed last week. "I'm interested in the position," Tarkanian said. "I always thought it was a good situation. I like that area." Tarkanian, 38, played for his father at Nevada Las Vegas from 1981-84 before graduating from law school.

A French court convicted a son of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi for striking his pregnant companion in a Paris hotel, giving him a four-month suspended prison sentence and fining him $628, the Paris prosecutor's office said. Hannibal Kadafi was not in court for the verdict, which found him guilty of assault and illegal possession of a pistol. On Feb. 1, Kadafi brandished an automatic pistol while at Le Grand Hotel InterContinental in Paris.

A woman and two of her children died this morning when a fire swept through their Pomona home, which had barred windows and doors that hampered rescue attempts, firefighters said. Two other youngsters in the home were critically injured, and two firefighters suffered minor injuries. A sixth resident escaped serious injury. The dead were identified as Cheryl Williams, 33, and her sons Charles, 17, and Jeffrey, 3. Firefighters were called to the house at 5:22 a.m.

An Amber Alert was issued Sunday after a man allegedly shot his estranged wife and kidnapped his sons in Sunland. According to Officer Karen Smith of the Los Angeles Po- lice Department, the mother dropped off her two sons at her estranged husband's home in the 10400 block of McBroom Street, about 10:40 a.m. Police said the couple argued and the man shot his wife at least 13 times, but she was able to speak before being taken to a hospital....

Princess Diana has issued a public apology after being castigated in the British press for taking her two sons, Princes William and Harry, to see a film about the Irish Republican Army. Her controversial trip was to see Columbia's "The Devil's Own," with Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford, at the Kensington Odeon in west London. The film has been attacked by some British critics as pro-Irish Republican propaganda, designed to appeal to Irish American audiences.

The 21-year-old son of Glendale City Councilman Larry Zarian pleaded no contest to embezzling $3,500 from the Nordstrom department store in Glendale and has been ordered into a drug rehabilitation program. "He was using the money to buy drugs--cocaine," Deputy Dist. Atty. John Bernardi said of Gregory William Zarian, one of the councilman's twin sons.

John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave, John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave, John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on. --Author unknown * Wherever John Brown's soul may be, his son's body lies on an Altadena hilltop named for what may have been the most critical battle in the bloody Civil War that followed his father's storied death.